Hola familia y amigos!
Como
le va? Just another week in Paradise! But not really, we have been
working hard and we are not in an area with beaches, monkeys, and mango
trees. But maybe next transfer! Actually, I will probably stay in San
Jose or close by for my entire mission, so cancel that. I guess it is
important to have the nurse close to the mission office and the
hospital. Weird. But it is still beautiful here, so no complaints! This
week I learned what rain really means in Costa Rica. Holy cow. RAIN! It
is kind of fun, but I feel bad when we sit on people´s couches and leave
puddles behind us.. And most people have tin roofs, so I can´t hear our
lessons durring the rain, but it´s all good! I don´t understand Spanish
anyways!
My
Spanish is better... I understand MUCH more, but I don´t speak much
more yet. But It is slowly coming. I wish I had more time for Spanish
studies in the mornings. My companions are helping tho! Actually, they
wake me up every morning at 5:30am and we read from the Book of Mormon
in Spanish for an hour. So that is fun. It is really good, but I almost
feel asleep during church, and on the bus, and during a lesson... So I
need to get used to it quick!
So
Zone Conferences were this week. We went to all three Multi Zone
Conferences because the Area Doctor was in town and gave a presentation
and wanted our help. So that ate up a lot of our study time and teaching
time. But they were fun and I got to see every one who is serving in
Costa Rica right now! Including Hermana Bratt and Hermana Jenkinson and
Hermana Fowler! Yay! :) But yes, we did get food posioning. Everyone was
dying. First we thought it was the dinner I cooked the night before
when we were all up in the middle of the night dying, but then when we
got a million calls in the morning from other dying missionaries, we
realized what had happened. It was hillarious! The president had to take
breaks while teach the next Zone Conference to use the bathroom, and
our phone was ringing constantly! But no one really died, so it is all
good.
I
thought I was tone deaf, but here in Costa Rica, I am a beautiful
singer! Most people have not grown up singing hymns, so they don´t
really know how to sing at all... So they think I sound good! Wahoo!
My companions
are also sister training leaders! So we are crazy busy! We travel for
that, and they have more meetings and phone calls, so I haven´t had a
normal day yet! It is hard for them to train me, but I am still
learning. Just crazy schedules every day!
Fun
fact, queque means cake! And it is pronouced like KK. So Katie, You are
cake! Yummy! Good nickname Kami! I don´t know what YaYa means yet. Ya
means now, so maybe NowNow? Could be cool?
Well. We have several
solid investigators. We found some really great new ones this week, and
has some really great lessons with old ones too. Fabricio and Maiblin
are scheduled to be baptized this weekend! I am so excited! I saw a huge
change in Fabricio. My first few lessons with him, he sat quietly and
listened, and didn´t like to pray, but now he has a huge smile on his
face every day and participaties and has a great testimony! I am excited
to learn more Spanish so I can understand more of what my investigators
are saying to me.. :)
We teach
English and Piano classes every Saturday! I invite about 10 people a day
to our free classes from the bus or the streets. My companions invite
even more than that. Not many actually show up, but I love teaching them
English while my Hermana Uribe teaches Piano. It is a fun way to meet
new people, and a good way to start conversations on the bus. My
conversations don´t get much further past that, but I am working on it. I
teach much more during our lessons now, and I am learning lots.
I
wish I had more time to study. I am learning new things every day and
could stay home and study for hours every day in Preach my Gospel, Jesus
the Christ, The Book of Mormon, and other scriptures. I should have
paid more attention during Seminary and Institute, because this is some
good stuff. Hear that Kami? Studying is good for you. Pay attention
during class. But I will have years and years to study, but only one and
a half to be a full time missionary. So that comes first. And I learn
from teaching and hearing testimonies from our investigators too, so it
is all good.
Well I hope
all is well with all of you! I love you all! And I love being a
missionary! There is always more to learn, more people to find, more to
do, more to say, more to share, and you can always become more close to
Christ. Always be happy, but never be satisfied. We are learning and
growing every day, and we have so many blessings in our lives, so always
be happy! But never be satisfied. Go out and do more! There are more
blessings waiting, I promise.
Love, Hermana Markle. :)
1. I didn´t know there was an earthquake.... So no, I did not feel it.... Oops...
2.
I forgot to say, don´t ever send packages from UPS or FED-EX. Only the
normal USPS has worked good for them. They loose other ones sometimes.
Not that you will send me any anytime soon, but maybe tell the blog? Oh
and tell them to send DearElders still. That way I can read them outside
of email time. I don´t get them very often, but it saves timee. You can
still send emails though!
3. Also, Spanish keyboards are hard to type on, sorry for all of the errors.
BYE! Have a good week!!!!
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